The well admired and legendary reggae singer, Horace Andy will be coming to Cardiff in August. He has cultivated admirers and preserved his reputation as one of Jamaica’s most influential musicians for over four decades.

Tricot are a Japanese all-female alternative rock band formed in historical and cultural city Kyoto in Sep 1, 2010. They started to expand their career in Asia, Europe and North America in 2014 and 2015.

Sleaford Mods are an English music duo based in Nottingham, composed of vocalist Jason Williamson and musician Andrew Fearn (since 2012). They are known for their abrasive, minimalist musical style and embittered explorations of austerity-era Britain, culture, and working class life, delivered in Williamson’s thick East Midlands accent. The duo have released several albums to critical praise.

To run alongside our 6 week summer blog we asked our resident crate-digger DJ Enzine to put together a random selection of 7” vinyl just for the fun of it, so if you’re just chilling in the garden having a BBQ, on the bus or in the car on your way to work or running around the local park on a warm summers evening we have the soundtrack for you…..Enjoy.

2017’s Pride Cymru Parade returning on the late August Bank Holiday weekend – Saturday 26th August 2017 will present homage to the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in July 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexuality in England and Wales. The theme of the parade this year will be ‘Icons and legends’ – be that of the LGBT community, the capital or even Wales.

Marmozets

Pick up something special that you’d never find on the high street. There’ll be a chance to meet the makers and find out more about their crafts as they run workshops and demonstrations throughout the weekend.

To run alongside our 6 week summer blog we asked our resident crate-digger DJ Enzine to put together a random selection of 7” vinyl just for the fun of it, so if you’re just chilling in the garden having a BBQ, on the bus or in the car on your way to work or running around the local park on a warm summers evening we have the soundtrack for you…..Enjoy.

Summer is well under way but you’d never believe it with the weather we’ve had, so here are some more suggestions to help you avoid the rain and get out of the house, plus another instalment of our Random Summer 7’s Playlist.

Kellys CD shop is having some mad changes! We’ve recently zeroed all of our CD stock, we’re basically starting again. For the last couple of weeks we’ve been reorganising and repricing all our CDs and found that there’s still life in the old dog yet! What has been fun about going through all the CDs is finding some real wafty and interesting music as well as some classics that had gone amiss under our old regieme. There have been some casualties though, as we have unearthed an unhealthy amount of Girls Aloud CDs, but hey, you win some and you lose some. We’re only about half way through the rock and pop, so we’ve still got a long way to go, so if you fancy come in, say hi and pick up a Girls Aloud album (please im drowing in them).

To run alongside our 6 week summer blog we asked our resident crate-digger DJ Enzine to put together a random selection of 7” vinyl just for the fun of it, so if you’re just chilling in the garden having a BBQ, on the bus or in the car on your way to work or running around the local park on a warm summers evening we have the soundtrack for you…..Enjoy.

This is Kizomba proudly presents Juntos – a night of the best kizomba, semba and afrobeats brought to you by two of the leading international DJs on the scene: DJ Mwami (London) and DJ D Stylus (Bratislava). Together we are stronger.

If you live in, around, or within driving distance of Cardiff, or possibly even within flying distance if you’re up for an adventure, you might be interested to know that a month-long pop-up arcade gaming residency will occur in the city throughout August.

The event (which annoyingly doesn’t appear to have a proper name, so I’m just going to have to keep referring to it as ‘the event’) is being organised by The Arcade Vaults, and will run from August 3rd to 31st at the Castle Arcade shopping centre in Cardiff.

Democratic People’s Republic of Jupe is an independent record label based in Cardiff. Harry Willicombe and Sam Butcher set it up to release their own music and help promote local music and music they like. They plan on doing a few small cassette releases to start and then maybe progressing onto vinyl, maybe doing a few nights too. They set it up because it seemed like a fun thing to do, and so far, it has been pretty fun! In the not too distant future they’ll be doing a collaboration with Ankle Swingers (which is run by their friends in Epsom). Everything they release will be available for a free download on their bandcamp.

So after we spent a few days sorting our 7’s out and giving them fresh colour-coded headders we thought we would recomend some of our favorite singles.

To run alongside our 6 week summer blog we asked our resident crate-digger DJ Enzine to put together a random selection of 7” vinyl just for the fun of it, so if you’re just chilling in the garden having a BBQ, on the bus or in the car on your way to work or running around the local park on a warm summers evening we have the soundtrack for you…..Enjoy.